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Your story on epigenetics was interesting and even encouraging. I imagine many existing and prospective parents may be remorsefully contemplating their lifestyles before they faced the sobering business of parenthood. I know I would. And I wouldn't consider having children based on my past lifestyles and your article. All the same, society and science sometimes seem to fall into dangerous cycles. Epigenetics smacks disturbingly of the horrific days in Soviet Russia when the mad geneticist Lysenko held sway over Russian science. I also have questions regarding sample size, causality and method. In my opinion, a closed population in northern...
After declining for more than a decade, the teen-pregnancy rate climbed 3% in 2006, with some 750,000 teenagers becoming pregnant, according to a Guttmacher Institute report. Abortions among teens increased 1%. Planned Parenthood blamed abstinence-only sex-education programs for the uptick, but the report notes that demographic changes and shifting attitudes toward pregnancy could also be factors...
...distinction under the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance reforms of 2002. In a 5-4 ruling, the court found that distinction unconstitutional. If freedom of speech protects the right of individuals to air their political views, it decided, then that right extends to incorporated groups--like businesses, labor unions, Planned Parenthood and Citizens United...